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  1. Just a thought but could you not get access to a good quality A3 inkjet? A lot of work i know (im guessing around 450 printouts and around £120 cost) and not publisher quality but it would at least give you a displayable print that could be shown to potential buyers. Once a buyer is found you could negotiate with them final printing costs.

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  2. Olly, Tom i wonder if you had any plans on maybe submitting this into Astrophotographer of the year? I know you want to sell the image but i think this would do well in the competition and that may even increase its resell value. Plus as a bonus it means the rest of us monkeys get a chance to pop down to Greenwich and see it in its full glory before it clads some private companies reception somewhere and is lost to the real admirers for ever.

  3. That would be my explanation too. Meteors frequently fragment as they come through the atmosphere and sometimes that is an explosive event. The stresses on a fragment of rock as it's outer layer is heated almost to melting point by friction while it's interior remains extremely cold must be considerable and it all happens within a matter of seconds.

    I could be wrong and will wait to stand corrected by someone who is a wiz with the maths, but i just dont think this can account for a 90 degree change in direction. Given the momentum of the body no matter how vigorous the explosion it would not result in a total 90 degree path being taken. There is quite a famous Nasa piece of footage of an object that appears to enter our atmosphere before suddenly changing direction and heading off at speed at 90 degrees (sure someone will find a link to it). All the expoerts although unable to explain the object all rule out a metoer on the grounds that it is technically impossible for them to change direction so dramatica\lly in flight. I have no idea what GazOC saw but really cant imagine it was a meteor changing direction 90 degrees.

  4. Bizarre indeed! My best guess would be some sort of explosive fragmentation.

    Even if I did believe in alien visitors, it's hard to think of a reason why their spacecraft would pull off pointless 90degree maneuvers. Maybe Earth is the galactic McDonalds car park where aliens show off their vehicles to each other ;)

    lol interesting thought, maybe after they have done their chores of mashing potato they head off to exhibit their doughnuts!

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